The driver was arrested and faces a date in court

Michael Gaine was last seen in Kenmare town on March 20th last when he bought phone credit in a branch of Centra shortly before 10am.

The policing operation, with a focus on rural crime and human trafficking, was aimed at preventing and detecting criminality along the border and at preventing and disrupting the free movement of criminals based in the Republic and Northern Ireland.

143 people have been killed on the roads so far this year.